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On Nature - Parmenides

Parmenides was one of the most famous and influential Pre-Socratic thinkers in Ancient Greece. Born sometime around 515 BC, he is considered the founder of ontology (the study of being) and had a tremendous influence on Plato. His most famous work was an 800 verse poem titled "On Nature". There are only ~160 verses surviving from the original poem. This is a reading from Robin Waterfield's "The First Philosophers" of the surviving verse from a section titled "The Way of Truth". The poem began with the narrator receiving a revelation of divine wisdom from a goddess on the nature of reality, the "Way of Truth" and the "Way of Opinion". I find this work incredibly interesting as a description of the totality of being, an insight into the Monad, Source, God, or Supreme Good, and as a forerunner of Platonism, Neoplatonism and later theological and philosophical discussions of Being.